GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

In an increasingly urbanizing world, cities are, after all, "right where people live and breathe and recreate.". Trees Forever pays a starting rate of $10 an hour — higher than the state’s minimum wage of $7.25 — and then bumps it up to $15 an hour for crew leaders. I feel like I’m making a bigger impact," he said.

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Grist

JUNE 1, 2022

Hurricane Agatha, the first named storm of this year’s Pacific hurricane season, slammed into the coast of southwest Mexico on Monday, bringing coastal flooding, heavy rain, and sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. It was the strongest storm to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast in the month of May since record keeping began in 1949.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 16, 2024

Front and Centered, together with some of our coalition members and our partners from the ClimeTime network, * are coming together to host the first Community Education in Action workshops. In addition, K–12 educators will receive clock hours to advance their professional development. appeared first on Front and Centered.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

Daily energy use across the state was down by nearly 8 percent during the last two weeks of March and into first of April, even after adjusting for weather, according to NYISO. In terms of hour-by-hour demand in New York City, NYISO is seeing even bigger drops during the 7 a.m.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Long-duration energy storage -- five hours or more -- is a crucial piece in the world's transition away from polluting fossil fuels toward renewable energy resources. ESS is targeting the 4-to-25 hours segment of long-duration energy storage. ESS is targeting the 4-to-25 hours segment of long-duration energy storage. billion.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Many EVs on the market today are outfitted with battery packs with capacities ranging from 40 to 65 kilowatt-hours. Tesla vehicle battery packs are even larger, up to 100 kilowatt-hours in the Model S or Model X. kilowatt-hour nameplate capacity. By comparison, Tesla’s Powerwall home battery has a 13.5

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Charged

MAY 19, 2022

The batteries can operate the truck for about two hours, after which the diesel engine kicks in. One battery pack is bottom-mounted, and another is mounted vertically in the center of the vehicle.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

A colossal Nevada data center will host the largest customer-sited solar-storage project in the world. Data center operator Switch plans to buy power for its record-breaking Citadel facility from an adjacent project developed and owned by Capital Dynamics. “That provides a cost savings for us on our energy procurement.”

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2021

They have an 800-volt modular, liquid-cooled battery system with up to 640 kilowatt-hours of energy that provides roughly 200 miles of real-world range and can be charged fully in three hours via DC fast charging.”.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 18, 2020

The Voltpack Mobile System comes in units of 250 kilowatt-hours, which can be packaged into hubs with about five times that capacity, complete with an inverter and other necessary equipment. A previous version stated the final capacity of the Northvolt Ett gigafactory was 32 gigawatt-hours. Multiple hubs can be connected in parallel.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In 2019 , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted more than 600,000 cases of Americans who became sick from bacterial infections caused by Salmonella and Campylobacter. Ideally, you need to let the meat defrost naturally by moving it from the freezer to the refrigerator for some hours. Avoiding Contamination.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 17, 2021

The NextEra Energy-owned utility has installed 100 of 132 containers for the FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center. The plant will have 409 MW/900 MWh of capacity, enough to power 329,000 homes for more than two hours. The original construction to build the solar center started in 2019. Wide World of Renewables session Aug.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Plus Power now needs to build the plants: a 150 megawatt/300 megawatt-hour system near a cranberry bog south of Boston, Massachusetts, and a 175 megawatt/350 megawatt-hour battery in Gorham, Maine. Once that happens, the battery is poised to charge up on the cheap influx of clean power, in order to discharge during valuable peak hours.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come. The biggest to date is the 20 MW/16.5

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 29, 2020

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government crisis management center was not informed about data on the predicted dispersal of radioactive substances caused by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said Friday. Continue Reading.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

11 with the ticker symbol GWH after closing its combination with the company's SPAC, ACON S2 Acquisition Corp. ESS utilizes iron flow technology, as opposed to lithium-ion battery storage, to provide storage of 4-12 hours. ESS began trading on the NYSE on Oct. On its first day of trading, ESS was up over 70%. Courtesy: ESS).

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Honeywell has developed a new flow battery technology capable of storing and discharging renewably-generated electricity for up to 12 hours, the company announced Tuesday. Our Emerging Technology and Innovation Center is an ideal proving ground to study this technology. billion.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

NGOs , practitioners and talking heads delivered hot takes in the hours after his letter hit the Internet. But stakeholder capitalism starts with nature: ever try to run a head office, data center or mine without clean water? trillion in assets under management talking, BlackRock is a magnet for applause, acrimony and envy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

After driving during the day, the truck returns to the Hayward depot to be charged overnight. Electric is cool," said David Pepe, service center manager for the less-than-truckload program at XPO Logistics. "We Earlier that week, the truck picked up loads in Half Moon Bay and San Francisco. We want it to work for the future.".

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A lawsuit accuses developer Tom Buttgenbach of misappropriating the University of California system’s money after the latter invested in a collection of solar projects. The lawsuit details alleged conversations between Buttgenbach and the university system after the executive had a falling out with a business partner in late 2018.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 11, 2022

Strata Clean Energy originally conceived of and developed the 100-MW/400-MWh system after Oxnard residents prevented the construction of a natural gas-fired peaker plant. The 30 MW/120 MWh project is named after the naval aviation training program that used to be located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, which is adjacent to it.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

After a two-year break, DISTRIBUTECH International 2022 returned with a bang to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, featuring networking and education opportunities for stakeholders within the energy sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

BYD’s Class 8 has a range of 125 miles and a top speed of 65 miles per hour. It can recharge in as little as two hours with a high-speed direct current system or in about 14 hours with a standard 240-volt charging system.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced non-essential businesses to close. That includes relatively small reductions in the early weeks, with only the final week seeing weekday working-hours usage falling to what one might consider minimum operating levels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Unprecedented winter storms have hit Texas so hard and forced so many power plants offline that rolling grid outages that began Sunday night have grown into hours-long blackouts leaving about 2.5 “We hope they’ll be able to come back in a matter of hours.” million customers without power on Monday morning.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

And in worst-case scenarios, homeowners want to keep critical loads powered via battery or backup generator during outages that can last for hours or days at a time. The most recent example is Schneider Electric’s latest Square D Energy Center, which is being unveiled at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Steyn cited these comments in the National Review shortly after. The statistician acknowledged in court that he earned around $100,000 for serving as an expert witness in this case, making $750 an hour for his participation. Their response “was our final word,” Wyner responded.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

The idea is to turn off the power supply to certain areas on a cyclical basis, for example, two hours ON, then two hours OFF. To stay open, shopping centers employ diesel generators or there are private energy storage devices in use. Restoring the Power Supply after Outage. The actual power gap now exceeds 8GW.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 11, 2020

The energy storage industry's proposal would take $150 million from the roughly $460 million remaining for a particular class of customers the CPUC has designated for special treatment — a highly lucrative $1-per-watt-hour incentive for what are called “equity-resiliency” projects.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Biomedical Waste Management Rules 2016 entail the healthcare facilities to follow a color-coded segregation structure for waste disposal and hand it within 48 hours over to treatment facilities. At a preordained timetable, municipal department trucks accumulate the waste and transport it to the recycling centers.

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Charged

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Volta, which has provided free Level 2 charging stations since 2010, has opened the first of the free fast chargers at a retail center in Norwalk, Connecticut. Volta’s new fast charge stations will use the CCS standard, and will offer power levels from 50 kW to 100 kW, enabling them to add up to 350 miles of range per hour.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

” The redesigned program now offers an incentive of $1 per watt-hour for customers that fall under its new “equity-resilience” category. That category includes community centers, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other key sites for protecting people during wildfires or blackouts. "We’re

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A typical ultra-deepwater riser joint is 75 feet long , with a steel pipe at its center, potentially weighing tens of thousands of pounds. As the Category 4 hurricane Ida raged, crew members experienced 80-foot waves and winds of 150 miles an hour — and those conditions persisted for hours, according to local news reports.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Summer's bounty of solar generation can increasingly be stored in batteries to shift capacity into the evening hours after the sun goes down, when energy demand for air conditioners remains strong. Why offshore wind is no slam dunk for Duke. Pumped hydro storage, but how much?

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2022

That’s why Subaru is launching its first EV more than a decade after Japanese pioneer Nissan. kilowatt-hour battery pack, assembled in China using cells from CATL, powers a pair of 80-kilowatt (109-horsepower) motors front and rear, with maximum torque quoted at 249 lb-ft. Subaru notes the Solterra’s center of gravity is fully 3.5

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 28, 2021

residential energy aggregator Social Energy is planning international expansion after gaining multimillion-dollar backing from U.S. “We’re paying feed-in tariffs of 40 cents [USD $0.31] per kilowatt-hour, compared to a market average of 10 cents [USD $0.08].” alternative investment manager CarVal Investors.

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